LG Innotek Joins Hands with Apple to Develop 3D Smartphone Camera

November 23, 2016 23:47|November 23, 2016 23:47

LG Innotek united forces with Apple to develop a smartphone camera module which enables 3D photographing. The camera which uses LG Innotek’s dual camera will likely to be applied for Apple’s new products starting from the latter half of next year.

Sources close to the situation said, “Apple is now studying how to apply its 3D camera technology into LG Innotek’s smartphone camera,” adding, “Since LG Innotek also has its own 3D camera and related technologies, such joint efforts will likely to bear fruit sometime within next year.”

Apple acquired an Israeli start-up LinX in April 2015 for US$20 million, absorbing the latter’s 3D camera technology. LinX, founded in 2011, has the technology of adding more depth to photos by dividing the digital image in three stages.

To realize 3D photographing, it is needed to be complemented by dual camera technology. LG Innotek is now exclusively supplying its dual cameras for Apple’s iPhone 7 which was released in Korea last month. LG Innotek has its own 3D camera technology applied for Optimus 3D, released in 2011 by LG Electronics.